Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Bruce Cleveland

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

Karen Bonaudi

We wanted to see if it generated any interest at all. So the next one is where we will have a real full agenda of different participants in transportation. The people we want to attract are the people interested in hearing from the providers of transportation and the users, and we expect a real interactive give and take session there.

Kent Conrad

As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else.

Tom Foreman

Assuming Republicans even retain their majority, nothing is going to get done in the next Congress at least on the president's agenda, or the House Republicans' agenda so it's bound to be a frustrating period.

Alan Autry

We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here.

Jim Carley

Assuming we don't run into any problems, the Nest's should be done by the end of the summer.

Bob Goodman

Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on plans on having it completed.

David Cunningham

Assuming there is a finding of excessive force, there will be zero tolerance.

Kent Mergler

Assuming the problems are no worse than what we've seen to date, you can make a case for a recovery. But that's a higher risk than we're willing to take.

Brian Hewitt

Assuming that Nike gets her from head to toe that would be Nike equipment, Nike clothes, the whole bit she would have nothing but Swooshes. That's the number she would automatically get from just signing. Overnight, she would get $10 million to $12 million. It depends on how the contract is structured, but that's what I'm hearing.

Judah Kraushaar

Assuming Lehman can successfully stage a profit rebound in early 2002, we believe the shares will prove to be an excellent value at this point, and we continue to see strong franchise value given the scarcity value of solid investment banking franchises.

Wim Duisenberg

assuming Japan manages to overcome - and I think it will - the difficulties it is currently facing.

Patrick Cleary

Assuming it's just us and Eureka Broadcasting, which is what my gut instinct tells me it is, I feel good that it doesn't look like some out-of-towner is going to come in here.

Scott Gordon

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre.

Arthur Levitt

This is bound to inflame investor passion. Evidently, Raymond did a first-rate job. Why do they want to hurt his legacy and his image by creating a compensation package that is so skewed and so unnecessary?

Adan Dualle

The export trade is bound to expand to include other new importing nations like Egypt and the Middle East.

Theodor Mommsen

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

E. O. Wilson

Boundaries will be broken, ... and you're going to see more women in leadership roles on television and in real life. We simply want to do our part to hurry history.

Eric Oliver

There's not gonna be a resolution. There is no relief we are going to be able to provide them on the boundary issue. I think we've seen enough.

Sheryl Krmpotich

We just needed to stop their runs. We knew it was bound to happen if we could maintain our defensive composure.

Marcus Nash

We just got down early. You can't get down early, especially this many points. You're bound to lose no matter what kind of team you've got.

Richard King

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

John Keeley

At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007.

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Mark Everson

Congress fails in the effort to get a simple, understandable tax code.

Mark Luscombe

Congress failed to extend the exemption increase into 2006. I think they still intend to do that, just retroactively.

Neal Katyal

Congress did not intend to strip the federal courts of their power to adjudicate pending cases.

M. Hopper

Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional interpretation.

Brian Riedl

Congress continues to resist cutting even one program.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.